CHEMIST

Jöns Jacob Berzelius

1779 - 1848

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Baron Jöns Jacob Berzelius (Swedish: [jœns ˈjɑ̌ːkɔb bæˈʂěːlɪɵs]; 20 August 1779 – 7 August 1848) was a Swedish chemist. In general, he is considered the last person to know the whole field of chemistry. Berzelius is considered, along with Robert Boyle, John Dalton, and Antoine Lavoisier, to be one of the founders of modern chemistry. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Jöns Jacob Berzelius has received more than 685,409 page views. His biography is available in 76 different languages on Wikipedia. Jöns Jacob Berzelius is the 10th most popular chemist (up from 11th in 2019), the 14th most popular biography from Sweden (up from 15th in 2019) and the 2nd most popular Swedish Chemist.

Jöns Jacob Berzelius was a Swedish chemist who is most famous for his work with chemical elements and the development of the periodic table.

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Among CHEMISTS

Among chemists, Jöns Jacob Berzelius ranks 10 out of 602. Before him are Antoine Lavoisier, John Dalton, Irène Joliot-Curie, Robert Boyle, Amedeo Avogadro, and Jabir ibn Hayyan. After him are Svante Arrhenius, Fritz Haber, Carl Wilhelm Scheele, Wilhelm Ostwald, Otto Hahn, and Jacobus Henricus van 't Hoff.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1779, Jöns Jacob Berzelius ranks 1. After him are Mustafa IV, Carl Ritter, Friedrich Carl von Savigny, Grand Duke Konstantin Pavlovich of Russia, Elizabeth Alexeievna, Francis IV, Duke of Modena, William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne, Antoine-Henri Jomini, Thomas Moore, Giovanni Battista Bugatti, and Abd al-Rahman of Morocco. Among people deceased in 1848, Jöns Jacob Berzelius ranks 2. Before him is Emily Brontë. After him are Gaetano Donizetti, François-René de Chateaubriand, George Stephenson, John Quincy Adams, Christian VIII of Denmark, Ibrahim Pasha of Egypt, Bernard Bolzano, Caroline Herschel, Vissarion Belinsky, and Nicolas Oudinot.

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In Sweden

Among people born in Sweden, Jöns Jacob Berzelius ranks 14 out of 1,879. Before him are Tycho Brahe (1546), Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden (1946), August Strindberg (1849), Gustaf VI Adolf of Sweden (1882), Charles XII of Sweden (1682), and Ingvar Kamprad (1926). After him are Sigismund III Vasa (1566), Gustaf V of Sweden (1858), Svante Arrhenius (1859), Olof Palme (1927), Ingrid Bergman (1915), and Greta Garbo (1905).

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Among CHEMISTS In Sweden

Among chemists born in Sweden, Jöns Jacob Berzelius ranks 2. Before him are Alfred Nobel (1833). After him are Svante Arrhenius (1859), Arne Tiselius (1902), Theodor Svedberg (1884), Per Teodor Cleve (1840), Sune Bergström (1916), Bengt I. Samuelsson (1934), Johan Gottlieb Gahn (1745), Johan August Arfwedson (1792), Axel Fredrik Cronstedt (1722), and Georg Brandt (1694).

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